tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82745264050626165072012-02-01T21:39:00.692-06:00How to build real-time 3D virtual reality and other things in three dimensions on the web for practically no money. "He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed." Albert EinsteinLen Bullardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12001043126774600957noreply@blogger.comBlogger1901100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8274526405062616507.post-35878310762903808242012-01-29T18:42:00.000-06:002012-01-29T18:42:12.228-06:00

When you're at home ill, who is the friendliest face on TV?http://youtube/DdnHoLkg9hc

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al Bari, the evolver, is one of the 99 names of God in the faith, Islam. This is a meditative piece on the idea that positive change, evolution, is a spiritual goal and exercise.

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For those people cold in their tents, for those people in the drum circles, for those people who march, for those willing to be arrested, for the people who know justice will come because they demand it, you are beautiful.

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A protest song for your consideration.

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A love song....

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Something bitter and something sweet. The kids have it. The eyes have it.

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A non-traditional rendering of a traditional irish ballad. And a protest and a prayer. If not peace, then mercy.

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“And ALERT: My character “Hollie Martin” starts her 7 episode run on Eureka July 18th - Felicia Day” A season featuring Felicia Day that begins with footage of the launch of a Mercury Redstone is not without the irony of an inside reference to her. Cute.On the other hand, the season premier is weak in the knees. Leave it to Canadian production to take pieces of American history and mash them up.

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A song of penitence dedicated to all those who raise their eyes to God in service regardless of religion or place in the world. The Oblatio Sui is a prayer by Ignatius Loyola and this is inspired by that text.

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We pay a price for the perfection of media. I tell my kids to watch the TV shows before color such as the Red Skelton Shows. I tell them to note two things:a) It was a very Caucasian world.b) Women had hips.For the first, I am glad. This had to change and as painful as that change was for some on the wrong side of history, the world is better.For the second, I am sad. We live in the

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As the professor says on Futurama, “Good news, everyone!”X3DOM 1.2 released June 20th, 2011 After many months of work, we’re proud to announce the release today of X3DOM 1.2. There’s plenty of cool stuff we have worked on since the last release. You can also swing by the downloads page to grab a copy of the release package.Cool stuff.

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Got 'er done. Parrotheads and demented environmentalists should like this one. :) Thanks to HGUMC for the loan of the piano and to Carolyn King who schemed until I learned to play it.

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These are two performances on the same day of a song I wrote for the HGUMC Praise Band about Jonah being swallowed by the Big Fish, aka, the Whale. We had a lot of fun with this. As someone said, "So Jonah fled on a banana boat, eh?" :)

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Just a helluva bad week...

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I'm posting a favorite song of mine to honor the creator of Samantha, Sol Saks, who passed away today in Los Angeles at the age of 100. We all miss her too.

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Few things are as pathetic as celebrities from old school media discovering the web is a conversation and the rules that protected their feelings and egos don't apply. They emerged in an era of carefully managed engagements with the press, with their fans, and everyone they worked with. Their art went one way and so did their expression. Their fan mail was sorted; their images were hand

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Having fun with my brother, Michael, playing the old songs. It's been a long long time since I've done this act.

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Happy St. Paddy's Day!

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We are the Evil House ElvesWith heads as hard as rocksWe live to leave the toilet lid upAnd hide your matching socksWe drink your milk right from the jugAnd flash our silky smilesWe torment Mother's with our tricksLeaving underwear in piles.We may look just like your childrenSo innocent and freeBut while you’re cleaning up the messWe’re making more with gleeThere’s nothing we can’t take apartNo

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ABC GMA says that Francis Ford Coppola is being honored this week for a lifetime of work. I say.. ++1. I have some particularly fond and private memories of seeing his work at the last of the drive in movies up the road before those were shuttered. For that and the movies, a simple thanks to an American original who reminded us what it means to be an immigrant, what it means to be a teen ager

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If you're promoting your act on social networks, a chestnut to recruit is the holiday effect. Simply: people buy on the holidays. Market to the season. Sort of a marketing cosmic d'oh but it's fun to prove the merely obvious. Here are some Insight stats from YouTube. The first the overall downloads for the site. The tall spikes are release times. Releasing often to keep these high is important,

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With all that is happening in the world, it is harder to imagine or remember simple intimacy and the joy of being safe. Love who you love with all your strength.

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There is an art to screwing up and covering up.

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oopsie....

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Evil is drab.

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The bears have a plan... and a menu.

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In a web where nothing but money matters, it's easy to hire a posse of bounty hunters.

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This is my Christmas card to my friends. I produced a version of Franz Schubert's Ave Maria. Merry Christmas!

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The hubris of the machines... and the meat that programs them. All Hail Virtuality! Resistance is... pointless.

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These are a blast to make.So when will someone finally build something this much fun and this easy to do with X3D? We created HumanML precisely for that. Now...

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My wonderful ever beautiful daughter, Kelly Rene.

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Some stories are much more the story of our times than others. In my opinion, this one is.Alejandro Amenábar Interview - Agora from FirstShowing.net on Vimeo.

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Ok, so maybe some day Felicia Day will be a cougar. You know what you know but you know you never know.

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When you realize that half of your friends like Brewer and Palin and the other half like Brewer and Shipley, you know why you can't throw a party and invite all of your friends. That's what Facebook is like.Every day I watch the mounting number of cause solicitations and think they are getting even more annoying than the Farmville Send Me A Donkey's Kong messages. Here's Common Cause, voice of

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Last week the Hazel Green United Methodist Chancel Choir performed my composition, Domine Jesu. This is my first sacred classical work with a Latin text derived from the Jesus Prayer, a prayer of humility and a plea for forgiveness. At that service, our Choir Director's daughter, Hannah Williams performed Gabriel's Oboe by Ennio Morricone. That performance is included in the video below.My

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The Beatles said all we need is love. Keats said, we need beauty and truth. For a life spent making art of passion, they both were right. I wrote this song for a girl when I was twenty. A friend took her photos. A friend taught her guitar. Art is joy.All of the men who worked on this video cared about this woman. Because of that, thirty five years later, this video could be made and given to

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I wrote this song when I was 20 for a wonderful girl. I sang it to her for the first time in the then trendiest restaurant in town where I was playing my first night and she was a college gal waitress. I looked up when I finished into two of the most beautiful luminous happy eyes I'd ever seen. The days of long nights playing solo in front of a fire to a room full of young college hippies

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With the news this week that There.com is closing and one of the superior virtual worlds with all of its member generated content goes pfft as it did with Lively and a dozen other 'will change the industry and the market' projects, one wonders.When will the virtual world industry and web 3D in general come to the place where it is completely understood that separating content specifications from

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Beyond the incalculable blunder of the name (yes, our office jokes about this are the same as yours): UPDATE: Thanks to Rob Koberg who sent this link, that point has been illustrated humorously by someone. Gotta love the web when it reacts fast and with the right spirit.I've heard the cooing about consumers of books. I don't need it. I don't read that often.I've heard the speculation about

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Here is my new video. Like the other 3D derived videos, this uses X3D/VRML samples. The theme is "Shraddha", Sanskrit for "Marvelous Faith". I hope you enjoy it.

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A career can cross a lot of paths. The two gentlemen in the photo are standing about twenty feet from my office door. One is an exec at our company and the other is one of our business partners. I'll let you figure out who they are. Hint: the short one worked for a much more famous executive and the tall one is, tall, even in sneakers.In all the fun of the Tweety Bird posts, I've been thinking

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On consideration of the Vanity Fair/GeekDiva harrumph happening in the blogosphere, they walked into the punch but they is geeks and we is geeks and they is our divas!Free The VF6!;)

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This is wonderful. The artist is Alex Roman.It is a little boring in that it is abstract; it is spectacular in that it is computer-generated and the artist did all of this including the music. Way good.

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Merry Christmas! I made my Christmas card. I hope it suits and brings good cheer. There is an extra treat at the end.

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Sometimes I get asked why I still record my songs and release them on YouTube for essentially free. The truth is I enjoy it and it's a lot of fun. I listened to Arlo Guthrie talk about the music business at The Church two months ago and as a veteran he described how marvelous it is that the young musicians no longer had to sell their souls to the entertainment industry. I listened to Sam Phillips

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I was playing with the video editor. It seems gif animations will work as drag and drop video objects. Obvious, but I'd never tried it before. Since the web is brimming with free gif animations, it's a nice add to the library of cheap tricks.UPDATE: I win Stump The Googler. After a week it can't find a video to relate this to. All those billions and billions invested and beaten by a lowly

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When Apple ripped off Gary Lewis and The Playboys for the music to their new commercial, the emerging crack in their brand became obvious.Cultural archaeology is one way to get ideas but at least rouge the corpse.

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The new season of The Guild is up. If you don't know already, guess who the new bad guy is.With Fawkes, Felicia Day may be close to writing the Worst Guild Member: someone whose understanding of her consistently breaks the magic circle, refuses to suspend disbelief, and plays not because he believes in gaming, but because he can't be bored for long and comes to see her as something more

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Am I the only one who finds those Abbey Road crossing commercials for The Beatles Rock Band to be distinctly creepy?

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Old song. New mix. Maybe done. :-)

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I finished demoing a piece for a Lent service next year, Domine Iesu. http://home.hiwaay.net/~cbullard/mp3/DomineIesu.mp3This is the first religious piece I've written specifically for a mass in Latin. Latin confounds some ears, so here are the lyrics translated: Domine Iesu, Christe fili dei, Miserere mei, peccatoris Kyrie eleison, Christe eleison Miserere, Domine Domine Iesu, Amen. and the

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The topic of the relationship of marketing to R&D is worth a distinct thread of its own. That’s the street I live on. No Product. No Market. No Sale. No Pay.I was of one opinion about this when I was an R&D set of hands. Another when I was the liaison to Marketing and Proposals (failing to understand that last term is where many CMOs screw the pooch). Yet another as chief cat herder for an R&D

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My brother, Michael made this video as a tribute to our Dad.We'll pick again on the other side. I miss you, Daddy.

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Delivering 3D in movies is delivering fish in fishnets instead of newspaper. It captures the 3D but it doesn't render it as well as the 3D engine does. The challenge is adapting the vocabulary of cinema production to the implementations of standard nodes in a common vocabulary. For musicians, digital sound systems metaphorically resemble physical systems in the GUI. Until now, 3D has been

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Kaspersky gives a sober assessment at ZDNet. Some applications make sense for the cloud and some don't. Expect mixed systems and mixed results. From my perspective, the scaling issues touted such as IT talent and the failure to determine if cloud computing suits the business model and particularly the business environment for a given business will be the reason for many cloud initiatives to

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UPDATE: Keith McCurdy kindly reminds me that "Personal scenes can be much larger than just rooms". Of course, VRML and now X3D are scene technologies and can be used to create much bigger spaces. My point is to emphasize the marketing of locales over very large and very expensive Earth map systems. A successful standard addresses the most common uses and they are locale-based. Scenes if you

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Here is something fresh but old folkie sweet. Daddy loves his little girl, and this just got me the biggest smile. Awwww!http://home.hiwaay.net/~cbullard/mp3/BeautifulBoo.mp3

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This is brilliant. Finally, a new generation of X3D artists are willing to get in their faces and sell it. I'm impressed.If VRML had gone as large as some hoped, this would not be possible now. Staying low and under the dinosaur's noses for a generation breeds tenacious mammals.

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The story of the devadasi who became sharii, Umrao. This is a sequence from the VRML world, The River of Life, with music by Ravi Shankar and Jean Pierre Rampal.

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The boat ride to the Temples of Saraswati is the opening sequence to the VRML world, The River of Life.

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This video is the Walking Kamala sequence from "The River of Life" VRML world referenced in several places in this blog.Video does not do VRML rendering justice, and it isn't as fun for the adventurous who do download the plugins and play the games. It is practical.The music is sampled under fair use.

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This URL was posted to Raph Koster's blog.http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol11/issue1/nowak.htmlIt is a good research paper on the qualities avatars are chosen by. The gist:Interface designers who wish to elicit attraction in users might consider anthropomorphic, non-androgynous, feminine, child characters for their interfaces. Future research should examine other contexts and varied child-like images

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The fifth and final installment of IrishSpace is up!

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The ice moon of Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune must be explored to determine the fates of their crews. Along the way, the ghosts of Saturn are remembered.

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A Kerry girl, the price of the bet, and the run to Jupiter!

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The second volume of IrishSpace is up! Captain Attridge receives his secret instructions after telling the sad tale of Gagarin Base.

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As soon as it finishes processing, the first volume of the IrishSpace movie is available at YouTube.IrishSpace Vol Onehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1b5wajK5Bk

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If you've seen the code required to display even a simple shaded sphere, it's easy to see O3D is unsuitable for mass market content creation. Layers built over the API can do that and certainly some will give it a shot, but until the tools arrive, content will be hand built and more expensive than even in the mid-90s.Look at the Vivaty plugin running the scene on this page. 3D On the Web Cheap

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In the early days of VRMLs a group of volunteers from across the world met every day and night online for three and half months to create the world's first virtual reality epic. The IrishSpace project succeeded as it was premiered to the world at the first Irish National Space Exhibition. It was shown to Astronaut Neil Armstrong and the Irish Deputy Prime Minister.This is a video version of the

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Music Tribe:I’ve completed the scene in Facebook/Vivaty integrating the videos, music other materials:1. Smooth. Easy Drag Drop and Go.2. Integration: fast dialog building for pulling in YouTube, Facebook, and externally hosted audio3. Time to setup: about eight hours total.4. Results: excellent.Bands on Facebook who don’t build one of these for their act and business quick need cranial exams.

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http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2009/04/universal-extends-successful-partnership-with-vivaty.htmland at Second Lifehttp://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/04/07/second.life.singer/index.html?iref=t2test_techtuesThat is the kind of world that warms a musician's heart: gigs we can play in our slippers. Ever since those pioneering gigs in Cybertown a long time ago, we've known this would be a significant

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Are emotions transitions? Given an editor where the output is a video segment, can the emotional vocabulary of emoticons be dragged and dropped to characters in scene the same way transitions, media generators and effects are dropped on video segments? The answer is no, but the emotions can be dragged and dropped as any of these on objects in the scene. Because X3D/VRML are type-compatible

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Here's a new video suitable for the season. Short, meditative, peaceful good for early risers who want a moment before they drive.The music was written for the University of Western Australia's virtual reality campus. Big thanks to Oz and Surak!! If you guys want to embed this in the campus world somewhere, do!

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Something to chew: when Google/YouTube displays a video, below it there is a strip of ostensibly related videos. They might be by artist after the first selection, but the first row presented is the indexing engine’s choice of choices. My new video has been up less than three days. When I checked that index selector, in the first row were five anti-war songs including three new ones and Edwin

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You read a linear story. You navigate a non-linear story. Some say an avatar is a cursor. Others, a set of eyes. Whatever, it is the instrument of character. I am interested in telling stories and only for that, simulation. Fidelity to the story is more powerful than fidelity to the subject but the balance of these determines the raw emotive expression.Attractors:o Understanding a URL as a

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Olivia said... Wow - this is totally opening up a new world for me. I am a "regular" musician (didn't give up my day job), but I'm also delving into electronica and finding out that there is open source applications and new ways of applying anything that makes digital sound into sequencing. THEN I'm learning that you can collaborate with like-minded musicians on the web. And NOW you're showing me

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A discussion asks how in the era of the Web As Copy Machine From Hell can the artist use scarcity as a means to increase or preserve the value of art.First, the medium of distribution has nothing to do with the value of the art as meaningful.On the other hand, no product no market no sale no pay.Copy protection simply won't work anymore. It’s of no value to fight the machine/human interface

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If we are to use human memory as our guide, we may only be fair witnesses, but we must reveal all that we see.This is the video for My Son's Time To Go. I didn't set out to write an anti-war song. It's in the questions.

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Offtopic but if you are a believer in real-time pixel graphics, this is a masterpiece.I've been laughing so hard I have hiccups. :-)

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I sat down and watched some episodes last night. I'm a late comer to this party.This is insightful. From the first scene where her shrink is firing her for not working on herself, to the last where her spirit flees from her, Miss Day reveals the irony of the online life that becomes life as her isolation in the game gives way to real problems, needs and people. In this story, what the

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Just to remind some who send me anonymous comments, it's my policy not to publish those. It stops a lot nonsense and reflects my opinion that a comment worth publishing has a name. Otherwise, the chicken hawks take over.Usually I won't respond either but like all policies, I set'em and I can break them.I'm a fan of sci-fi and have been since the days when my Dad's friends in the rocket industry

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Note that the Web3D Consortium has added a feature to their web site for members to post jobs. For anyone looking for a gig in this trade, check it out.

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It's good to see Neil Trevett out and about. He needs the exercise. :-)Openness of APIs will not protect the content authors from the death of platforms. If VRML taught us anything, it taught us that the IP-unencumbered standard language is the author's only hope for keeping content alive. Today, VRML97 worlds created in 1997 when Neil joined still run today. No other 3D format can make that

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Kingsley, at the Eden project asks:Just wondering, why don't people like Adobe have much interest in adding real 3D capabilities to Flash for the web? Is there anyone out there working on making the web 3-dimensional, in a manner of speaking? As in websites that have depth and which you actually walk through like you would in a supermarket. That would completely redefine web-design, wouldn't it?

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Kingsley Ndiewo Ouko sent mail saying:Take a look at my site: www.funtrench.com and especially the blog at blog.funtrench.com. Feel free to leave a comment or get back to me. I would be honored to get some advice on what we're working on from an industry insider. And thanks a lot for your time.Len asks:Are you using conforming VRML or X3D for a file format import or export?Kingsley Ndiewo Ouko

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This is an interesting announcement. If you haven't seen it, the MITRE Corporation is joining the Web3D Consortium as a Directing Member. This means they get a seat on the board of directors and influence. To fully disclose, I am currently a professional member of that board finishing out another term, but that gets me a seat at the table. Directing Members have a lot of influence.This is

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Reading an article about a new toolkit that enables a 3D world to interact with a 2D Flash application, I wonder why anyone who is gaming wants to play in 2D? I'm not that into games so it is probably my own blind spot. On the other hand, it's easy to see why game world vendors who are betting their companies on Flash do. They want badly for Flash to become the dominant interaction platform

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Raph Koster writes in the comments on his blog discussing Unity vs Shockwave This is (before len chimes in!) similar to the situation with X3D — I actually think the fragmentation of X3D browsers is hurting the perception that it’s viable, because no one vendor has gained enough traction with the mass market.But both are actually quite capable solutions.X3D vendors have been less concerned about

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http://www.maryandmax.com/Extreme digital graphics still can’t beat clay, a persistent hand, and a good heart with an expensive camera.

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I usually discuss 3D here, but most of you know I am a musician by choice and once upon a time, career. To be specific, I am an acoustic guitar player. Although I can play other instruments and electric, I pretty much suck on most except acoustics.Anywho...I came across something acoustic guitarist should have: The D-TAR Mama Bear. It is a pre-amp for acoustic guitars. On stage, acoustic

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This is fantastic!As I said, for those who need IP-unencumbered, roll-your-own, the content won't die and you can own it:http://www.newlively.com/help/faq.jspThe Chinese get it. Use the technology you own: the ISO Standard. Let's see how Google and the other TLAs react.One pertinent comment at VirtualWorlds I read is: get user-generated content capable pronto.I love it!

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This is my musical gift to my friends this year.It is a vocal, guitar, string arrangement of Gounod/Bach's Ave Maria.UPDATE: This is the choral version (lots of voices).Merry Christmas! I love you all very much.len

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Here is something one doesn't see often: a Request for Information for a city virtual world. In this, the City of Decatur Georgia seeks to create opportunities for community networking, civic engagement and economic development.Note also, the need for "monitoring for inappropriate behavior". I don't think one has to imagine hard what that is about.Sooner or later, you play in Decatur... but

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Boris Kizelshteyn, CEO of Popcha says in yet another prognos blog trying to build brand by offering 'insight', Everyone recognizes the green and cultural benefits of an entropic co-present virtual environment, but the implementation has been illusive.Huh? Is that code for "if I jumble together words that don't belong in the same sentence people will believe I have insight"?What is ahead?

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It seems those who are annointed keep being greased. IBM is proud that Mad Bad Irv has been picked to be part of Obama's A-Team. I sure hope Irv has a Bad Van for the band members. So IBM insiders who managed to derail the virtual worlds industry standards with high dollar hob-nailed boots only to discover that Second Life is a porn festival and that they need their own private islands to

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Second Life should be viewed not as a game, but as a platform for content developers.Ok. Microsoft should not be viewed as a software developer but as a platform maker for content developers. That means given the current market position of Microsoft, there is no need for PDF or ODF. IBM should close their doors.Cluetrain: If you develop content for a closed platform that does not have a

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Google is closing the doors on Lively. I can accept that yet another big company has discovered it's own business culture and model isn't suited to running virtual rooms. A lot of companies shouldn't get into that business.What I can't accept is that the virtual artists so blithely disregard the need to be able to recover the content. Videos and screenshots are insulting as a means to save

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Here is something I picked up at Bob Sutor's blog. It is an article on g-Speak, a new Minority Report style gestural interface with recombinant networking from a company named Oblong. The presentation makes reference to a spatial operating environment. These ideas have been floating around the Internet for a long time now and seeing them implemented is exciting..http://www.engadget.com/2008/

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Wow! Go Navy! The NPS gives us another piece of the XML 3D puzzle.Thanks!len**************************************************************************X3D Schematron Validation and Quality Assurance Don Brutzman (brutzman at nps.edu) X3D Schematron is an additional form of XML validation used to detect problems and help assure the quality and correctness of X3D scenes.Motivation Allowing

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